Governance

St Michael’s Hospice is registered as a Charity no. 288462 and as a Company in England no. 1776496

Registered office: 25 Upper Maze Hill, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, TN38 0LB

The role of the Board of Directors

The Board is legally accountable for the activities of the hospice.

This involves:

Leadership, ensuring that the charity has a clear purpose and an overall framework and standards.
Development of overall strategies to achieve the hospice aims and ensuring that there is a system to delegate the implementation of strategies to the staff team.
Monitoring the progress of the hospice to ensure that it provides the highest standards of care, balanced with the effective, efficient and economic use of hospice resources and assets.
Ensuring compliance with the law and accountability to the hospice stakeholders, including the local community.
Ensuring the Board itself performs effectively; contains people with the skills and experience it needs; and makes plans to ensure the recruitment, induction and development of new Trustees

Board Priorities

The Board has agreed its main priorities as being:

Quality of Care We need to make sure that we continue to deliver the very highest standards of care and treatment to all those who use our services.

Funding We need to ensure that the appropriate funding is in place to that we can continue to deliver high quality services on a secure basis.

Staffing We need to ensure that staff and volunteers are fully valued for the essential contribution they make, are treated fairly and have the appropriate training and development opportunities.

Planning In a fast changing world, we need to plan ahead, making sure that external and internal challenges are met effectively so that we can continue to offer and develop our services for local people from all our communities.

Reputation We need to promote the work of the Hospice amongst all sectors of the community, constantly seeking to enhance the reputation of St Michael's and St Augustine's.

Apart from its regular monthly meetings, the Board has established three sub-committees: an Audit Committee, Remunerations Committee and Corporate Governance and Nominations Committee.

St Michael’s Hospice’s Board of Directors 2008

Julian Avery – Chairman
Robert Beecroft
Professor Derek Blackman
Jim Condon
Simon Corello
Frank Noah
Julia Parsons
Christopher Rowe
Dr Simon Weston-Smith

Senior Management Team:

Celia Pyke-Lees – Chief Executive
Dr Dick Board – Medical Director
Perdita Chamberlain – Head of Fundraising & Marketing
Maxine Clist – Registered Manager, St Augustine’s
Andrea Garrick – Voluntary Services Manager
Andrew Knight – Finance & Estates Manager
Denise Mulligan – Registered Manager, St Michael’s
Georgina Parker – HR Manager

Bankers:

Lloyds TSB Bank plc

Solicitors:

Gaby Hardwicke, 13 Eversley Road, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex, TN39

Auditors:

Phipps & Co Chartered Accountants, Landgate Chambers, Rye, East Sussex, TN31 7LJ